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So my trafficker was Royall

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Jenkins. He is the leader of a

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religious organization formerly known as

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the United Nation of Islam.

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They are now known as the Value Creators.

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So the trafficking began when

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my great grandmother

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introduced me to Royall Jenkins at a

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public religious meeting. I

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was seven years old. In the

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middle of the meeting while Royall

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Jenkins spoke with his members,

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he requested that I be brought to him.

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Because I was a kid, I didn't have a choice,

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my great grandmother made

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all of my choices for me.

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And then subsequently after

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beginning to live with Royall

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Jenkins' family, they made all the

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choices for me. And so

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I had no authority and no

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choice at that part. My main

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role, there was a domestic

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servant and that included not only

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taking care of him and his

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multiple wives and his concubines,

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but also his multiple sets of young children.

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Another thing I was expected to do

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was to champion this work over going to

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school. So that changed for me

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because I was in school prior to all this

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happening. I wasn't able to go back to school.

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And then, you know, the rules began to

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become a lot more strict. So instead of being

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able to communicate, even to speak with them, it

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was clear that I wasn't to talk to anybody

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in a way where they were my family or my friends

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but I was a servant and so I was less than.

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So you know, even at eight years

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old, you know, that really

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made me confused because I

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initially thought that I was going

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to be here as another member

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of their family, which was told to me but

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in reality I was there to give them free labor.

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I came across multiple health care

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professionals who at that time did not really

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know the signs of trafficking,

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although some of them may have

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had an inkling or you know,

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had the look on their face

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like 'something isn't just right', they didn't

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really know how to speak up about it.

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A few years later after living with them

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we all moved to Kansas City, KS

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I was really sick

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because they were not letting me

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eat, you know, starvation was

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used as punishment, torture and

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all those other things. So you know

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when they took me to the doctor because at

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this point my great grandmother began

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to put pressure on them.

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You know, the doctor literally

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almost asked me like 'are you

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trapped, are you okay?' Because

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there was a lady who was

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standing at the door, she

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was standing there so that I

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wouldn't say the wrong things

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And I tried to hint at

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the doctor that I don't live

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in Kansas City, Kansas, I

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don't even...I don't even

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know where I am like, you

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know, and, you know,

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they're not my parents, you know,

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I don't really remember the

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words I actually used, but I

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used the words that made me

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feel safe enough to kinda

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ask for help in that particular

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manner. And he, I saw him

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and he almost picked up the

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phone. He literally moved his

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hand over the phone to like

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say, call somebody, but then

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he just said, no, forget

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it. And then you know,

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that was that I went back

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home with them. My great

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grandmother began to realize that she

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was being manipulated. She began

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to realize that she herself was

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being coerced or had been coerced

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to participate in this entire

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organization and that Royall Jenkins did

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not have her best interest in

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mind. And so their relationship

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quickly deteriorated as she was one

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of the major financial donors

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for this organization. He pushed

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back, he hit me. He

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cut off all communications, of

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course he chose to demonize her,

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you know, calling her the

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devil and you know, if I

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associate with the devil, then

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that means I'm the devil too

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and then I'm going to hell

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blah, blah, blah, blah,

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blah, fear, fear, fear.

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And so because I was in

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another state, it was difficult

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for her to get to me or

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get the authorities to work

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across jurisdictions. To understand

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what was not only happening,

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but occurring on within

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multiple states and then sometimes on

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an international level. So it

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took awhile. However, she

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basically threatened him with the FBI

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and stated that if, you don't

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send her back now I'm calling

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the FBI and I'm sure, you

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know, I don't know what they're

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going to catch you with but

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I'm sure they're not gonna be happy that

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you have all these kids working

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for free in this type of

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predicament. And so that motivated him

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to put me back on the bus,

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the same bus I went up

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there on and he sent me back

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to Washington D. C.